All hail Juno. OpenStack, the open-source cloud OS, is at v10. Chock-full of new features and the ob. bug fixes, it's attracting attention not only from public cloud providers, but also from organizations that want to run private or hybrid clouds.

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OpenStack has reached its 10th biannual release, code-named Juno. [It] contains a new provisioning service, code-named Sahara, for Hadoop and its Spark in-memory processing system...broader support for rolling upgrades...storage policies, which allow OpenStack admins to set a balance of their choosing between reliability of storage (more copies made) or cost (fewer disks used). … Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, explained...the real killer app for OpenStack will be its speed -- not only in processing, but in providing resources on demand [but] it's tougher to determine if the value is derived from...agility or [as] a substitute for commercial products like VMware. MORE

And Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols hooks us up with more details:

[It's] the open-source cloud from a who's-who list of technology companies...the most production ready OpenStack release to date. … Sahara...enables users to run Hadoop big data applications in OpenStack. ... This marriage of one of the most popular cloud programs with one of the most well-supported big data programs is likely to give both even more market acceptance. ... OpenStack Trove, the cloud's database service, now includes a new clustering...API with initial support for MongoDB NoSQL...DBMS clusters. ... Another noteworthy feature is...Swift 2.0 cloud storage policies [which gives] far more control over OpenStack's backend storage. ... OpenStack's Neutron network also now has better support for IPv6. ... Nova is a new rescue mode that "enables booting from alternate images with the attachment of all local disks. MORE

Numbers. Numbers! We need numbers... Chris Merriman happily obliges:

[It] contains 342 new features, 3,219 bug fixes, almost 500,000 lines of modified documentation...1,419 unique contributors including representatives from 133 companies made it all happen over six months. … Of course, OpenStack waits for no-one. With this release safely out, work now begins on the next version, codenamed Kilo, which is due in April 2015. MORE

Looking ahead, Simon Sharwood knows how to pun:

Juno what's just been released? OpenStack 10, that's what.… There's...an initial waft at network function virtualisation (NFV). The OpenStack Foundation...promises [more] in OpenStack Kilo [which] is expected to include “Ironic...a fully integrated Bare Metal provisioning service”. Future releases will gain a shared file system, queue system, a DNS service and the Barbican key management project. … Juno isn't a colossal release. But the NFV and other plans mean future releases are going to become rather more powerful. MORE

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